MOSCOW, July 20 (Reuters) – Ukraine targeted Moscow and the surrounding region with 400 drones overnight, wounding 10 people and setting buildings ablaze, Russian officials said on Monday.
In a statement on Telegram, Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov said that seven people, including three Chinese nationals, had been wounded in a drone attack on the town of Domodedovo, close to one of Moscow’s main airports.
The mayor of Domodedovo, Yevgeniya Khrustaleva, said in a statement on Telegram that a fire had broken out at a local industrial park, and that a residential building had also been struck.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv had struck logistical facilities and an oil depot in the region of the Russian capital.
Further south, on the Ukrainian border, the governor of Belgorod region said that one person had been killed and four injured by a drone attack on a village close to the frontier.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said more than 400 “enemy drones” were launched at the Moscow region between 8:30 p.m. (1730 GMT) and 5:00 a.m. (0200 GMT).
Most were neutralised by air defence systems at a long range, including 85 destroyed while approaching the Russian capital.
Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, said on Monday its logistics centre in the Podolsk district, also in Moscow region, had been evacuated as a precaution but later resumed normal operations.
On Saturday, waves of Ukrainian drone attacks killed seven Wildberries warehouse workers and injured dozens more, while another attack sparked a fire at an oil depot in the wider Moscow region.
Ukraine has accused Wildberries of retailing military supplies used for Russia’s war effort.
The Russian Defence Ministry said air defence systems had shot down 381 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov overnight.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Michael Perry and Ros Russell)
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